Clothes peg



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Patented Dec. 25, 1923.

intense FFEQ JOHN WILLIAM RODNEY, 01 DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND.

CLOTHES PEG.

Application filed April 26, 1923. Serial No. 634,753.

T all w 7mm it may concernv Be it known that 1, JOHN WILLIAM Rooney, a subject of King George V of Great Britain, residing at 40 Bowling Street,

Dunedin, Otago, in the Dominion of New Zealand, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes Pegs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to articles for peg-' gino' clothes and the like to a clothes line.

'lhe object of the invention is to produce a metal clothes peg to be considerably stronger and more eflicient than the ordinary wooden clothes peg.

According to my invention, the strength is obtained by bending one piece of wire twice; the second bend forming a double eye on the application of the peg to the clothes line to reinforce an opposing force set up between the members thus clamping the clothes to the line more efficiently than ordinary pegs hitherto applied.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention,

*igure 1 represents a wire blank,

Figure 2 represents an approximately half bend made in the wire blank member illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 3 represents an approximately half bend made in the member illustrated in Fi ure 2.

Figure 4 is a side view showing the member illustrated in Figure 3 fashioned by crossing the prong members thereof to form 25 eyes and crimps, and to be curved at the point and points to facilitate entry upon the clothes line.

Figure 5 is a view of Figure 4, in the di rection of the arrow head Z.

Figure 6 is a view illustrating a portion of a clothes line and a fragment of material to indicate in perspective the method of pegging the clothes upon the line.

Referring now to the numeral on the drawing, the wire illustrated in Figure 1 is bent to approximately a half-bend, as indicated in Figure 2. The wire in the form thus illustrated, is again bent into a half bend, as illustrated in Figure 3, and referring to Figures 4, 5, and 6 the bending process is continued until the open leg or prong members 1 and 2 cross the closed leg or prong member, as at 8, forming eyes 4, crimped at 5, and the ends fashioned in the manner indicated at 6, while the closed leg or prong member is crimped at 7 and the end curved as at 8. it will be seen that both the leg or prong members are crimped in a suitable position so that when the said members are in approximate alignment as at 9, the erimps 5 and 7 are opposite each other, and in elevation form provision as at 10, for engagement on the clothes line without unduly straining the peg or unduly opening the prong members. The points 12, 18 and 14 are fashioned in the manner described as at 6 and 8 to facilitate entry upon the clothes line.

What I claim is new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A clothes peg consisting of a single piece of wire bent upon itself to form a loop with a closed end and oppositely disposed free ends, the opposing portions being bent and the closed end passed between the free ends, said parts being crimped outwardly below such crossing point whereby to fornf an approximately diamond-shaped recess adapted to receive a clothes line and to clamp the same therein, said portions being outwardly inclined in opposite directions adjacent their lower ends and terminating in outwardly curved ends, whereby to provide a throat leading to said recess to facilitate the placing of the peg on the clothes line and its removal therefrom.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN WILLIAM ROONEY.

Witnesses:

ANDRENA TODD, MABEL MCKEEMAN. 

